Burning Sands (2017) (original) (raw)
Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.
Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing. (less)
Director: Gerard McMurray
Writer: Gerard McMurray
Starring: Malik Bazille, Cuyle Carvin, Imani Hakim, Trevante Rhodes, Alfre Woodard, Steve Harris
Producers: Reginald Hudlin, Gerard McMurray, Common, Jason Michael Berman, Stephanie Allynne
Review by Brian Orndorf, March 16, 2017
7 / 10
The experience of fraternity pledging is usually depicted a certain way, putting heavy emphasis on the brutality of hazing rituals, which often push pledge minds and bodies to the breaking point, guaranteeing lasting loyalty. Rarely does a film showcase the initiation process as one of hearty exchanges and firm handshakes. �Burning Sands� is the latest in a long line of college disaster movies, but it manages to locate a few new avenues of humiliation to explore, taking in the choreographed barbarity of fraternity life at a black college, pitting the savagery of daily abuse against clearness o ...read more...
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